All about the genuine Sabah Claim Society

We are Philippine patriots who have grouped together from around the world and who created the Sabah Claim Society group originally on Facebook on 15 July 2011 and counted close to 6,000 members.

But on 5 October 2011 our group on Facebook was traitorously hijacked by two people we had invited to join us as group admins but who, we learned later on, had been hired to sabotage our patriotic group by a group of sinister individuals sporting fake European sounding nobility titles and other spurious Tausug/Sulu titles ['bestowed' and indiscriminately distributed on Facebook] and organized by a combined team of charlatans namely a datu (sporting a fake sultan title) and the latter's handler who is conveniently sporting an absolutely fake 'princely' title as well.

Please be warned that the said group of individuals, we believe, are in fact con artists out to "claim" Sabah for "get rich quick" reasons and are not genuine Philippine patriots. Their motive, we have discovered, is to be able to convince Malaysians that they are genuine Sulu royalty and pro-Philippine Sabah claim supporters in order to extract from Malaysia (which has control of Sabah today) a premium for letting go of the Sabah claim.

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Monday, 10 March 2014

Sultan of Sulu: No to PH consular office in Sabah

THE Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo reiterated its
rejection of proposals made by Malaysians for the Philippine government to open
a consular office in Sabah.

Apparently agitated by the reports that the Aquino
administration has decided to open a consular office in Sabah, Sultan Esmail
Kiram 2nd, the reigning Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo,
expressed serious concern.

The Sultan’s wazir, not quite his prime minister but his
policy adviser, former Gov. Almarin Centi Tillah of Tawi-Tawi, relayed these
concerns to The Manila Times’ Publisher-Editor Rene Bas.

“We have every reason to believe that the plan while being
denied publicly by Aquino officials, was agreed upon in secret between
President Aquino and Prime Minister Najib Razak,” Al Tillah said.

“This is a betrayal not only of the Sultanate of Sulu and
North Borneo but also of the Republic of the Philippines. It is against
Philippine national interest to virtually abandon the claim to Sabah by opening
a consular office there and thereby show the world that the Philippine
government accepts Malaysian sovereignty over Sabah,”
he added.

In a separate event also on Monday, the Sultanate’s
spokesman, Abhraham Idjurani, told Manila Times reporter Ritchie Horario of the
Sultanate’s rejection of the plans “of the government to establish a Philippine
consular office in Sabah.

Idjurani said saying that this is tantamount to surrendering
Philippine sovereignty over Sabah to Malaysia.

“The Sultanate of Sulu is vehemently opposing any move by
Malacañang to put up a Consular Office in the disputed territory,” Idjirani
said.

The establishment of a consular office in the disputed
territory was raised during the recent visit of President Benigno Aquino 3rd in
Malaysia.

In case the plan pushes through, Idjirani said, Aquino would
be the first Philippine President to start with “a wrong policy to waste a
national legacy and as part of the Muslim contribution to nation building.”

“He has forgotten that any effort to diminish this legacy is
a betrayal to the Filipino Great Cause,” he added.

He added that Aquino must remind Malaysia that it should adhere to
the rule of law embodied in the 1963 Manila Accord.

North Borneo is that part of Sabah that is the sovereign
territory of the reigning Sultans of Sulu and North Borneo.

The present Sultan, Esmail Kiram II, as his predecessors
did, gladly accepts the fact of his being a Filipino citizen. Therefore, any
lands and seas in his realm is part of the Republic of the Philippines.

That Sabah is Philippine territory is affirmed by the
transfer by the then reigning Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Muhammad Esmail
Kiram I, “of full sovereignty, title and dominion” over Sabah to the
Philippines on September 12, 1962. The President of the Philippines
then was Diosdado Macapagal.

Legal documents show that Sabah was leased by the Sultan of
Sulu and North Borneo to agents of the British
North Borneo Company. The UK
then handed over the lease to the leaders of Malaya
when they, with British support, were forming the Federation of Malaysia.

The Malaysian government maintains that Sabah belongs to it
and Sabah is a state of the federation. The Philippines
disputes that claim.

During President Aquino’s visit to Malaysia last week, Malaysian media once again
played up proposals that the Philippines
open a consular office in Sabah.

Problems of Filipino “migrants” in Sabah—Filipino
Muslims carrying Philippine passports—have been cited by Malaysians as the
reason there should be a consulate.

The way the news reached the Philippines, it seemed as if President
Aquino and his administration have agreed to these proposals.

That is not true. President Aquino himself has stated that
he did not want the Sabah dispute to be
discussed but that Prime Minister Najib Razak did.

The Malaysian PM suggested the establishment of a hotline
over the Sabah dispute. The hotline would be
between the Philippine and Malaysian security authorities. The Malaysian PM
himself told journalists this detail.

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WHAT IS THE SABAH CLAIM SOCIETY?

The SABAH CLAIM SOCIETY blog serves as a repository of articles, documents, researches, and other publised material to help us all understand what the Philippine Sabah claim is all about and where it is at today. Our aim is to provide a 'pedagogical' platform, a learning tool that everyone is invited to use to discuss and learn about the standing Philippine Sabah claim.

For information, the SABAH CLAIM SOCIETY is NOT under the aegis of any Sultanate of Sulu group nor of any Facebook group linked to/headed by indviduals purporting to be sultan of Sulu, grand prince marshal, duke/duchess, count, viscount, marquis, baron, lord, lady, etc., etc. These European sounding nobility titles do not exist in the genuine Tausug or Sulu Sultanate culture and are therefore fake, a pure invention.

We are not a part of any government or non-governmental institution or agency whatsoever. We are just a group of genuine individual patriots who have come together from different parts of the globe to enforce and support the tenet that sovereignty rights of the Republic of the Philippines over Sabah must and should remain supreme.

WE GO BY THE DICTUM OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS SENATOR JOVITO SALONGA, FATHER OF THE PHILIPPINE SABAH CLAIM

"If, despite the assumed knowledge of the validity and justice of the Philippine claim, we fold our arms in mortal fear, we should lose not merely the respect of all law-abiding nations (the United Kingdom and the Asian countries in particular), but also a considerable measure of self-respect — which, to my mind, is more important — and, by our own inaction and timidity, lose our faith in the ultimate validity of that which is right and just. If, on the other hand, we come to the conclusion that the Philippine claim is without basis, then we should say so and let the British Government know our stand. Such candor and probity will undoubtedly inspire the respect of the entire free world."